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category: academic
type: academic
person: Yanxin Lu
date: 2010
source: wu_10_aura.pdf
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# AURA: A Hybrid Approach to Identify Framework Evolution

Wei Wu, Yann-Gael Gueheneuc (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal), Giuliano Antoniol (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal), Miryung Kim (UT Austin)

ICSE 2010

Software frameworks and libraries are indispensable to today's software systems. As they evolve, it is often time-consuming for developers to keep their code up-to-date. The authors introduce AURA, a novel hybrid approach that combines call dependency and text similarity analyses to overcome the limitations of existing approaches that cannot automatically handle one-replaced-by-many or many-replaced-by-one change rules. AURA was implemented in a Java system and compared with three previous approaches. On average, the recall of AURA is 53.07% higher while its precision is similar (e.g., 0.10% lower).